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...After his elimination Bobby Jones, no sulker, stayed at Pebble Beach to referee the match between Johnston and George Voight...
Said eager Edward Voight: "I will let my record speak for itself and will not make a fight . . . unless forced...
...trying to decide between the Brothers Voight, Wisconsin voters were at least luckier than West Virginians. Wisconsin's Voights are easily distinguishable one from another, Charles's face being longer and plainer than handsome, smiling Edward's. West Virginia has two Sharp brothers in politics and they are identical twins. Summers H. Sharp, circuit judge at Marlinton, W. Va., often visits Charleston, the capital, where George Sharp is Secretary of State. When both are in town at once, people rub their eyes and Negroes get the "jim-jams." George Sharp has been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate...
North of Milwaukee are two Wisconsin counties, Sheboygan and Manitowoc, and two ambitious German-born brothers, Charles S. Voight and Edward Voight. The two counties fit together nicely into one judicial circuit. The full-grown Brothers Voight cannot, however, be fitted together into the single circuit judgeship. So, since both Brothers Voight are determined to be circuit judge, political fratricide impends. Last fortnight bold Brother Edward Voight was reminding Sheboyganders and Manitowocians how he served five terms (1917-27) in the U. S. House of Representatives, ever faithful to La Follettism. Brother Charles S. Voight, on the other hand, happily...
Said cheerful Charles Voight: "For the life of me, I can't see how any man who served in the War can vote...